Procedure
For this project I decided to do a quick overview of the first home game for the USC Aiken women's soccer team when they took on 10th-ranked Wingate University on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. I have always enjoyed photographing USC Aiken athletics and it just made sense that I would use some of my own images to tell the story of the game. I started out by going through the images I had and chose 19 spread throughout the contest to help with the illustration. I then used Photoshop to crop the images into a 16x9 format so they wouldn't lose anything or look funny when placed into the video. Once I had my images, I imported them into iMovie and began following the instructions provided on how to add different effects to add to the game. I chose to use only a few transitions because I felt that a sports video needs quick, clean cuts rather than fancy transitions except to bring emphasis to certain areas like after goals and such. I then added some titles to help describe what was going on. After I was finished, I exported the file, uploaded the finished .m4v file to YouTube and embedded it on this page.
Challenges
To be honest, this project was slightly challenging for me because I am used to working with a more in-depth program, Premiere Pro. IMovie is an excellent tool, but I was not familiar with the layout nor with how to do certain things like transitions and add text. It also took a little reading to figure out how to adjust the Ken Burns effect on the images so they popped more. I was already familiar with most of these techniques, just not in this program.
New Learnings
The biggest thing I learned was how simple and complex iMovie can be at the same time. It is very simple in it's "drag-and-drop" method of placing images and audio files as well as transitions, but it can be quite complex when trying to figure out how to change the Ken Burns effect on an image or add some more to a video line to make the production pop.
Sources
All photographs were taken by me while at the game. They are free to be used for non-commercial use.
Audio - Challenge Success A - Face off.aiff was found using Sonicfire Pro 5 and is copyright free.
Procedure
For this project I decided to do a quick overview of the first home game for the USC Aiken women's soccer team when they took on 10th-ranked Wingate University on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. I have always enjoyed photographing USC Aiken athletics and it just made sense that I would use some of my own images to tell the story of the game. I started out by going through the images I had and chose 19 spread throughout the contest to help with the illustration. I then used Photoshop to crop the images into a 16x9 format so they wouldn't lose anything or look funny when placed into the video. Once I had my images, I imported them into iMovie and began following the instructions provided on how to add different effects to add to the game. I chose to use only a few transitions because I felt that a sports video needs quick, clean cuts rather than fancy transitions except to bring emphasis to certain areas like after goals and such. I then added some titles to help describe what was going on. After I was finished, I exported the file, uploaded the finished .m4v file to YouTube and embedded it on this page.
Challenges
To be honest, this project was slightly challenging for me because I am used to working with a more in-depth program, Premiere Pro. IMovie is an excellent tool, but I was not familiar with the layout nor with how to do certain things like transitions and add text. It also took a little reading to figure out how to adjust the Ken Burns effect on the images so they popped more. I was already familiar with most of these techniques, just not in this program.
New Learnings
The biggest thing I learned was how simple and complex iMovie can be at the same time. It is very simple in it's "drag-and-drop" method of placing images and audio files as well as transitions, but it can be quite complex when trying to figure out how to change the Ken Burns effect on an image or add some more to a video line to make the production pop.
Sources
All photographs were taken by me while at the game. They are free to be used for non-commercial use.
Audio - Challenge Success A - Face off.aiff was found using Sonicfire Pro 5 and is copyright free.